Rita Jaafar
Rita Jaafar Position: Postdoctoral Researcher School/office: School of Medical SciencesEmail: cml0YS5qYWFmYXI7b3J1LnNl
Phone: +46 19 302191
Room: X2309
About Rita Jaafar
Background
- Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Lebanese university, Beirut, Lebanon
- Master (MSc) degree in Infectious diseases (2019) from Aix-Marseille University (Faculté des Sciences Médicales et Paramédicales), Marseille, France
- PhD degree in Microbiology (2022) from Aix-Marseille University (Faculté des Sciences Médicales et Paramédicales), Marseille, France
Research
I specialize in virology, focusing on viral infections and prevention methods. I hold a PhD degree in Microbiology and Master degree in Infectious diseases and Microbiota. My research included studying Giant viruses of Amoeba, investigating Measles outbreaks in France, and researching SARS CoV-2 during the pandemic. Currently, I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Örebro University and a part of developvaccines@oru group, where i am actively involved in a project aimed at developing a new vaccine for Tick-borne Encephalitis
Research projects
Active projects
Publications
Conference papers
- Asghar, N. , Maravelia, P. , Ahlen, G. , Jaafar, R. , Frelin, L. , Larsson, O. , Johansson, C. , Sällberg, M. & et al. (2024). Flavivirus replicon-based novel vaccine candidates against Hepatitis viruses. Paper presented at 21st Smögen Summer Symposium on Virology, Smögen, August 22-24, 2024. [BibTeX]
- Jaafar, R. , Asghar, N. , Ljungberg, K. , Melik, W. & Johansson, M. (2024). Pre-Clinical Development of a Novel Tick-Borne Encephalitis Vaccine for Mucosal Immunization. Paper presented at 21st Smögen Summer Symposium on Virology, Smögen, August 22-24, 2024. [BibTeX]
- Asghar, N. , Jaafar, R. , Lindqvist, C. M. , Ljunberg, K. & Johansson, M. (2023). Design, rescue, and characterization of Langat virus infectious clone by next generation sequencing. Paper presented at 20th Smögen Summer Symposium on Virology, Smögen, August 24-26, 2023. (pp. 51-51). [BibTeX]
- Jaafar, R. , Asghar, N. , Ljungberg, K. , Melik, W. & Johansson, M. (2023). Development of a potential live-attenuated Langat virus as candidate for novel tick-borne encephalitis vaccine. Paper presented at 39th annual meeting of NSCMID, Örebro, 21-24 September, 2023. [BibTeX]
- Jaafar, R. , Asghar, N. , Ljungberg, K. , Melik, W. & Johansson, M. (2023). Development of Live attenuated Langat virus infectious clone as potential new TBEV vaccine candidate: Study of cellular and humoral immune response in mice. Paper presented at 20th Smögen Summer Symposim on Virology, Smögen, August 24-26, 2023. [BibTeX]